30-year-old American Elton Julian will make his return to international motorsport at this year's Le Mans 24
Hours endurance race driving an LMP900-class Dome S101-Judd entered by Jan Lammers' Racing for
Holland team. Julian will have his first outing with the team at this week's Dunlop tyre test at the Paul Ricard
HTTT circuit in the south of France in preparation for the official Le Mans test day on June 5th and race on
June 18-19.

Julian will drive with team owner Jan Lammers himself a Le Mans winner in 1988 with Jaguar and fellow
Dutchman John Bosch, a standout in Barron Racing's FIA GT series Ferrari and Lammers' Le Mans co-driver
in 2003. Racing for Holland's combination of the Japanese-built Dome chassis and British Judd V10 made
its Le Mans debut in 2001 and has finished 8th, 6th, and 7th in the last three runnings of the Sarthe classic.
For 2005, the car will sport a revised version of its famed black-and-white `block' livery featuring Holland's
national colour, orange. The team's second car is currently second reserve for the 24 Hours.

Elton Julian burst upon the international scene in 1992 in the British Formula 3 Championship, a major
stepping stone to Formula 1 since the 1960s, and remains that series' youngest-ever race winner. A season
and a half in French F3 earned Elton a test with the Larrousse F1 team at the end of 1994. Faster than one
of Larrousse's regular race drivers after just 20 laps, he was immediately signed as test and reserve driver
only for the team to go bust soon after. In 1995, Elton excelled in two endurance racing appearances in
Euromotorsport's Ferrari 333SP, finishing second at Daytona after driving for over 13 hours and setting a
new track record at Sebring. Since a frustrating 1996 season in Formula 3000, Elton's on-track activity has
been limited to a series of highly impressive one-off races and tests with Formula Nippon, Formula Atlantic,
and American Le Mans Series GT teams.

Elton's drive is being funded by private investors and a slate of sponsors to be announced in May. "My
backers and I considered very carefully the best way to relaunch my career, and it became clear that
sportscar racing was the way to go," said Julian. "There are a lot of talented drivers who didn't make it to
or in F1 but still made successful careers in sportscars. In fact, at Le Mans I'll be up against a bunch of
my old `classmates' from French F3 and F3000."

The California-based Julian visited Racing for Holland's headquarters near Amsterdam on April 13th for a
seat fitting and to get acquainted with the car and the team. "The team and the technical package are very
solid, just what you need for Le Mans," said Julian. "For myself, I'm back in my element. I'm getting the
track time I need to be ready for the race, and the team has made me feel really welcome."

Racing for Holland principal Jan Lammers said, "I raced against Elton at Daytona in 1995. As far as I'm
concerned, if he was quick then, he's quick now. I've had a few ups and downs in my own career, so I can
relate to his determination to come back. He's already struck up a nice rapport with the team and we're all
looking forward to running him."